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Beauty and the Ogre

Summary[]

Beauty and the Ogre is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the 1756 fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was only credited in the French dub), while also containing ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau. The film was directed by Caleb Jacobs, Manuelvil1132 and Elliot Miller (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Andrew Davenport, from a screenplay by Anne Wood.

Beauty and the Ogre focuses on the relationship between Graham (voice of Graham Leach), a prince who is magically transformed into a ogre and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance, and Emily (voice of Emily Smith), a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle. To break the curse, Shrek must learn to love Emily Smith and earn her love in return before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose or else Shrek will remain a Ogre forever. The film also features the voices of Christoph Waltz, Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, and Laurie Metcalf.

Walt Disney first attempted to adapt Beauty and the Ogre into an animated film during the 1930s and 1950s, but was unsuccessful. Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Walt Disney Pictures decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical period drama. After seeing a test reel, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg scrapped Purdum's idea and ordered that the film be a musical similar to The Little Mermaid instead. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote the film's songs. Ashman, who additionally served as the film's executive producer, died of AIDS-related complications six months before the film's release, and the film is thus dedicated to his memory.

Beauty and the Ogre premiered as an unfinished film at the New York Film Festival on September 29, 1991, followed by its theatrical release as a completed film at the El Capitan Theatre on November 13. The film grossed $331 million at the box office worldwide on a $25 million budget and received widespread critical acclaim for its romantic narrative, animation (particularly the ballroom scene), characters and musical numbers. Beauty and the Ogre won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the first animated film to ever win that category. It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song and received additional nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound. In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disney's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical, which ran until 2007.

An IMAX version of the film was released in 2002, and included "Human Again", a new five-minute musical sequence that had been cut from the film prior to its release, but was included in the 1994 musical. That same year, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, the film was reissued in 3D in 2012. A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Bill Condon was released on March 17, 2017. In 2014, Time magazine ranked Beauty and the Beast as the greatest film of the Disney Renaissance and one of the greatest animated movies of all time.

Plot[]

An enchantress disguised as a beggar woman offers a rose to a cruel and selfish prince in exchange for shelter from a storm. When he refuses, she reveals her identity and, for the prince's arrogance, she transforms him into a ogre and his servants into household objects. She casts a spell on the rose and warns the prince that the spell will only be broken if he learns to love another and be loved in return before the last petal falls, which would occur at the beginning of his 21st year, or he will remain a ogre forever.

Several years later, in a nearby village, Emily Smith, the book-loving daughter of an eccentric inventor named Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini, dreams of adventure. She frequently tries avoiding Mandrake, a narcissistic hunter who wants to marry her because of her beauty. On his way to a fair to showcase his latest invention, an automatic wood-chopper, Vinny gets lost in the forest and seeks refuge in Shrek's castle, but Shrek imprisons him for trespassing. When Vinny's horse returns without him, Emily Smith ventures out searching for him and finds him locked in the castle dungeon. Emily Smith offers herself as Shrek's prisoner in Vinny's place, and Shrek releases him.

Emily Smith befriends the castle's servants: RJ the Raccoon, Verne the Turtle, Verne's friend Petrie, Sarah Hawkins the Mother, and her son Jim Hawkins, the Mother's Son. When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, Shrek catches her and, in a violent rage, sends her fleeing from the castle. In the woods, she is ambushed by a pack of troublesome trucks, stone generals and dodos, but Shrek rescues her and is injured in the process. As Emily Smith nurses his injuries, a rapport develops between them and as time passes, they begin to fall in love and Shrek begins to change his ways.

Meanwhile, Vinny returns to the village and fails to convince the townsfolk of Emily Smith's predicament. Hearing Vinny's statements about Shrek, Mandrake hatches a plan: he bribes Wooster Q. Weasel, the warden of the town's insane asylum, to have Vinny locked up as a lunatic; with no one to support her, Emily Smith would have no choice but to marry Mandrake. However, before they can act, Vinny leaves for the castle to attempt a rescue alone.

After sharing a romantic dance with Shrek, Emily Smith uses Shrek's magic mirror to check on her father and sees him collapsing in the woods. Shrek releases her to save Vinny, giving her the mirror as a souvenir. After Emily Smith takes her father to the village, a band of villagers led by Mandrake arrives to detain Vinny. Emily Smith uses the mirror to show Shrek to the townsfolk, proving her father's sanity. Realizing that Emily Smith loves Shrek, a jealous and outraged Mandrake has her and her father locked in the basement and rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay Shrek. With the help of Jim Hawkins, who arrived at their house as a stowaway, and Vinny's wood-chopping machine, Vinny and Emily Smith escape and rush back to the castle just as a heavy thunderstorm starts.

During the battle, Shrek's servants fend off the villagers. Mandrake attacks Shrek in his tower, who is too depressed from Emily Smith's departure to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Emily Smith return. He defeats Mandrake but spares his life before reuniting with Emily Smith. However, Mandrake fatally stabs Shrek with a knife and then slips and falls to his death. Shrek dies in Emily Smith's arms before the last petal falls, but Emily Smith tearfully professes her love to Shrek, and the spell is undone, reviving Shrek and restoring his human form along with all his servants and his castle. Graham Leach and Emily Smith host a ball for the kingdom, where they dance happily.

Cast[]

  • Belle - Emily Smith (Cedarmont Kids)
  • Prince Adam - Graham Leach (Cedarmont Kids)
  • Beast - Shrek
  • Gaston - Mandrake (Epic)
  • Lefou - Flippy/Fliqpy (Happy Tree Friends)
  • Lumiere - RJ (Over the Hedge)
  • Cogsworth - Verne (Over the Hedge)
  • Mrs. Potts - Sarah Hawkins (Treasure Planet)
  • Chip - Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet)
  • Fifi - Pachirisu (Pokemon)
  • Sultan - Turtwig (Pokemon)
  • Wardrobe - Ess (Puyo Puyo) (with Ellie (Ice Age) as an extra)
  • Maurice - Vinny (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
  • Philippe - Spike (The Land Before Time)
  • Treasure Chest - Sig (Puyo Puyo)
  • Enchantress - Sam Sparks (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs)
  • Stove - Dr. Marbles (Cyberchase)
  • Brooms - The Slugs (Flushed Away)
  • Furniture - Various PBS Kids Characters
  • Various Kitchenware - Various PBS Kids GO! Characters
  • Flower Pot - Robert Gay (Cedarmont Kids)
  • Knight Armors - Various PBS Kids Characters
  • The Bimbettes - Tosha, Jason and Min (Barney and Friends)
  • Wolves - Troublesome Trucks (Thomas and Friends), Stone Generals (TMNT) and Dodos (Ice Age)
  • People in Paris - Various ZOOM, Cedarmont Kids, PBS Kids, Will and Dewitt, PBS Kids Go! ID Kids and Puyo Puyo Characters
  • People at the Ball - Various Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Characters
  • Gaston's Army - Dagda and Boggans (Epic), CGI Crayons (Baby Einstein), The Dogs and Wildebeasts (The Wild), Turtles (WordWorld), The Forgetters (Inside Out) and Tyler and 4 Town (Turning Red)
  • Human Lumiere - Mo (Will and Dewitt)
  • Human Cogsworth - Danny (Barney and Friends)
  • Human Mrs. Potts - Violet Parr (The Incredibles)
  • Human Chip - Tony Rydinger (The Incredibles)
  • Human Fifi - Kristen (Barney and Friends)
  • Human Stove - Fred (Will and Dewitt)
  • Dog Sultan - Scrat (Ice Age)
  • Baker - The Muffin Man (Shrek 2)
  • Bookseller - Kyle (Shrek 2)
  • Various Children - Various Kinderwood and Will and Dewitt Children
  • Villagers - Various Over the Hedge Humans
  • Woman near Fountain - Jewel (Rio)
  • Mom - Berry (Frogger)
  • Baby - Casey Cat (LeapFrog) (with Tad (LeapFrog) as an extra)
  • Sheep - Various Cars Characters
  • Band playing "Here comes the Bride" - Chickens (Chicken Run)
  • Monsieur D' Arque - Turtle (WordWorld)
  • Beauty Frog (Frogger), Eva (Rio), Mrs. Frog (LeapFrog), Jamie Grable (Cedarmont Kids), Tiny (Dinosaur Train), Cera (The Land Before Time), Ali (The Land Before Time) and Poppy Prescott (Despicable Me 4) as herself (a.k.a. Belle's friends)
  • Yoshi (Mario Series), Miss Lilly (Angelina Ballerina), Frog Tiana and Louis (The Princess and the Frog), Bernie Lumen (Elemental), Anger (Inside Out), Arlo (The Good Dinosaur), Aladar (Dinosaur) and Lug (Robots) as himself (a.k.a. Beast's friends)
  • Tilly (Word Party) and Quigley (LeapFrog) as himself (a.k.a Cogsworth's daughter)
  • Petrie (The Land Before Time) as himself (a.k.a. Cogsworth's friend)

Items[]

  • Books - Gavin's Video Games, TV Show DVDs and DVDs and Manuelvil1132's Video Games, TV Show DVDs
  • Maurice's Wood Chopping Invention - Pizza Hut Machine

Locations[]

  • Paris - Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Belle's House - Gavin's House
  • Belle's Library - Gavin's DVD Library
  • Belle's Neighborhood - Cottage Grove, Minnesota
  • Paris Village - Woodbury, Minnesota
  • The Ceremony - Minnesota History Center Cafe
  • The Forest - The Grotto (Will and Dewitt)
  • The Tavern - Minnesota History Center
  • The Westwing Castle Entrance - Great Wolf Lodge Entrance in Bloomington
  • The Westwing Castle - Great Wolf Lodge in Bloomington
  • The Westwing Castle Hall - Great Wolf Lodge Lobby in Bloomington
  • The Library - Washington Country Library
  • The Ballroom - Pinz at Oakdale, Minnesota
  • The Kitchen - Great Wolf Lodge Campfire Kitchen

Scenes[]

  • Beauty and the Ogre Funding Credits (2002 Opening Version)
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 1 - Once Upon a Time...
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 2 - "Emily Smith"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 3 - Mandrake Stops Emily Smith
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 4 - Vinny Comes Upon a Lodge
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 5 - Mandrake Proposes to Emily Smith
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 6 - Emily Smith Goes in Search of Vinny
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 7 - Emily Smith's New Home
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 8 - "Mandrake"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 9 - An Invitation to Dinner
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 10 - "Be Our Guest"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 11 - The Great Wolf Lodge
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 12 - Emily Smith Tends to Shrek's Wounds
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 13 - Something Special for Emily Smith
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 14 - "There's Something There"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 15 - "Beauty and the Ogre"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 16 - Mandrake's Evil Plan in Action/"Kill Shrek"
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 17 - The Lodge Under Attack
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 18 - Mandrake and Shrek/Mandrake's Death
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 19 - The Transformation/Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  • Beauty and the Ogre Part 20 - End Credits
  • Beauty and the Ogre Funding Credits (2002 Closing Version)

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